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Warren Steinkraus Lecture

This year's lecture features Pete Mandik of William Paterson University addressing “Mind, Metaphysics and the Future” at 4 pm Thursday, Oct. 6, in Marano Campus Center auditorium. His research has explored neurophilosophical explanations of phenomenal counsiousness, artificial life experiments on the evolutionary emergence of representational content. Mandik is also somewhat of a Renaussance man appearing in the New York Times with his band Quiet Karate Reflex, co-hosting a podcast called “Space Time Mind” and pursuing artistic endeavors that include his painting “Exomusicology” appearing on the book cover of a philosophy colleague. Learn more

Established in 1988, the Warren Steinkraus Lecture on Human Ideals honors an active member and co-founder of several professional philosophical societies by bringing an engaging thinker and speaker to campus every year. Steinkraus, who passed away in 1990, was associate editor of the philosophy journal Idealistic Studies and personally committed to ideals such as social justice, equality, peace, nonviolence and aesthetic quality.

The Oswego College Foundation manages an endowment created by donations from Steinkraus’ many friends and admirers to fund the not-for-profit educational series.

Past Speakers

2017

J.D. Trout

"Explanation, Truthiness, and the False Climb to Knowledge"

2016

Dr. Pete Mandik

"Mind, Metaphysics and the Future"

2015Dr. Jonathan RileyLiberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Mill’s Political Philosophy and American Ideals